Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani on Thursday described fleeing the Taliban’s victory march on Kabul, saying the decision had been taken in “minutes” and that he did not know he was leaving the country until he was taking off. Ghani told BBC’s Radio 4 “Today” programme that on the morning of August 15, 2021, the …
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Wall Street took in stride the Federal Reserve’s clearly-telegraphed decision Wednesday to begin to scale back its stimulus program, and major equity indices pushed to fresh records. For the fourth straight day, all three major US indices ended at all-time highs, with the broad-based S&P 500 gaining 0.7 percent to 4,660.57. The records came after …
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Stock markets mostly dipped and the dollar steadied Wednesday, with investors biding their time ahead of a hotly-anticipated Federal Reserve announcement on tapering its vast stimulus propping up the economy. World oil prices sank as concerns about China tempered demand expectations. Wall Street pulled back modestly at the opening bell after closing at record highs …
Joe Biden. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 7:30 PM PT – Sunday, April 18, 2021 U.S. officials said Joe Biden is committed to raising the cap of refugee admissions this year, just days after announcing he would stick with the cap set by President Trump. First, Biden signed orders limiting refugee admissions to …
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Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in an interview with ABC on Sunday, defended the Biden administration’s decision to maintain Trump-era refugee caps amid capacity constraints. “It’s going to be very hard to meet the 62,000 this fiscal year,” Blinken said of the Biden administration’s earlier goal for refugee admissions, after being asked about Friday’s directive to keep …
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Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst is introducing legislation aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood. The Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act would prohibit taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood and instead direct those funds to other eligible women’s health care providers. Ernst’s bill comes after the Biden administration began taking steps to undo former …
A nurse holds a syringe containing a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine made by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, a unit of Sinopharm subsidiary China National Biotec Group (CNBG), at a vaccination center during a government-organized visit, in Beijing, China, April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter April 15, 2021 ZURICH (Reuters) -The World Health Organization will …
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp doubled down on his criticism of Major League Baseball’s decision to pull this summer’s All-Star Game from the state, saying that the move will have a devastating economic impact on minority-owned businesses. “It’s minority-owned businesses that have been hit harder than most because of an invisible virus by no fault of their own,” …
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FILE PHOTO: A worker pushes a cart as people wait to receive food supplies at an aid distribution center run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), at Beach refugee camp in Gaza City April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem April 8, 2021 By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian refugees on Thursday welcomed the …
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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 27: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) are shown at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:28 AM PT – Sunday, April 4, 2021 Major League Baseball’s …
